I have thought about this problem a lot. Originally, I had visions of
physician programmers turning out Open Source code. Those were visions. I
believe the correct approach is to make medical open source as congruent with
the Linux/Apache/PHP/etc. open source world as possible in order to attract as
large a group of programmers as possible. Admittedly, in contrast to
something like Linux, the users of the software will not be the programmers,
but then again neither will they be in the GEHR schema. The enthusiasm that
motivates the open source programmer is not entirely pecuniary. It's that
enthusiasm that we should tap.
John Gage
Thomas Beale wrote:
> Agree. But consider this: the more specialised a product/project, the fewer people
>who
> will work on it. I think it is reasonable to say that far fewer people than work on
> Linux will work on (e.g.) the GEHR kernel. And for most people on this group, there
> will be no need to compile the GEHR kernel - if they are building applications, they
> As I say, not "everyone", just the interested parties. It will be a much smaller
> number.
